Tina O’Toole, The Irish New Woman
Tina O’Toole’s The Irish New Woman attends to an obscured issue in the field of New Woman studies, namely, the Irish aspect of the late nineteenth-century ‘Woman Question’. Throughout the study, ‘Irishness’ figures as a fluid signifier, pointing to the hybrid national identity of New Woman writers...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | Tina O’Toole’s The Irish New Woman attends to an obscured issue in the field of New Woman studies, namely, the Irish aspect of the late nineteenth-century ‘Woman Question’. Throughout the study, ‘Irishness’ figures as a fluid signifier, pointing to the hybrid national identity of New Woman writers such as George Egerton, L. T. Meade, Sarah Grand, Hannah Lynch, and Katherine Cecil Thurston. O’Toole argues that the hybrid identities of these writers facilitated their challenge to hegemonic con... |
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